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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. This is a sobering fact when we consider how much has been done, and how little we have understood of what has been done.
— Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? (1954)

3w ago

theconvivialsociety

What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

In 1994, when an earthquake knocked out power to much of Los Angeles in the middle of the night, some residents were so spooked by the appearance of the Milky Way above them that they called the police to report the strange phenomenon.

1mo ago

theconvivialsociety

What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

The sight of the star-filled sky, a unifying human inheritance across thousands of years, has been all but lost to the majority of people who now live in urban and suburban settings. By one account 80% of Americans can no longer see the Milky Way. In 1994, when an earthquake knocked out power to much of Los Angeles in the middle of the night, some residents were so spooked by the appearance of the Milky Way above them that they called the police to report the strange phenomenon.

2mo ago

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

2mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented the controls that belong with the machine.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

4mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

5mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge and the most intimate courage can possibly enable us to endure.

5mo ago

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